Other forms of racing allow greater variety, which in turn means greater drama.

Paula Radcliffe may be the marathon's lead-from-the-front equivalent of Michael Schumacher but her exception proves the rule that the human (or the horse's) engine must be coaxed through its miles or furlongs.

If F1 cars were run on oxygen and lactic acid, then we would have a different spectacle. But they are computerised and de-humanised with lap times that vary only by hundredths of a second.

When did you last see a driver tactically concede the lead like a 5,000m runner (unless his name was Barrichello or Schumacher?)

There's no percentage in it - when could you ever reliably reckon to get it back again?

Which brings us back to your e-mails and that craving for more overtaking.

Schumacher (right) and Barrichello dominated the season for Ferrari

Think about the circuits as well as the cars. Monaco can never change without billion-Euro compulsory purchase orders.

But elsewhere there must be scope for greater width in places combined with better blend of straight and curve?

And go one further than FIA president Max Moseley in the changes to qualifying.

If you really want to guarantee that the fastest cars go to the back of the grid and have to fight their way through the traffic, then put them there as a matter of routine.

Their incentive would be championship points for the fastest qualifiers.